Making an emotional connection with your reader is critical to a successful story. For chatty narrators, this is not a problem. But this becomes a challenge with narrators that are emotionally scarred or limited in their own awareness. We’ll first examine general ways in which narrators reveal emotions. Then we’ll look at the very problematic case of reluctant first-person narrators that are unaware of their emotions, unable to share their emotions, or unwilling to share their emotions with the reader. We’ll look at specific techniques used by published authors to reveal these hidden emotions without betraying the narrator’s character.